Working from home can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be!
Dress as if you’re going to work. Take a drive around the block to start your day. When you walk back in the door, be ready to work.
Pick a spot that can be shut off from the rest of the house – with a door that can be closed
Work when it is work time, and family when it is family time
Use music or white noise to block out the sounds of the house
Leave your “office” set up just as you would at your office, so you’re prepared to start each morning
End the day by choosing your three critical priorities for the next day and start the first task. That might mean that you write the first sentence of a project for example so you’re ready to go in the morning.
Your daily routine is more important now than ever – get up and “go to work”
Leave the TV OFF!
Stay out of the fridge, except when it is time for lunch, avoid the Home Office #15
Be empathetic with your family but negotiate the plan for these few weeks you may be working from home.
This is not going to last forever. Even though it seems like that it is a possibility.
It's been a pleasure to join the Meraki community. As we all are working from home and doing or best for organization similarly Meraki team also doing great work for arranging these types of contests. All the best for everyone for doing such a great job.
As someone coming in a bit from the cold, this is great news! I have so much stuff to catch up on, but will definately prioritize this after I finish az-900, hopefully monday.
Studywise, this corona thing doesn't seem so bad. Now we just need to keep our employers going and keep our jobs.
I haven't yet attended any seminars or courses. I heard from a guy at work he just did a webinar/lab which was pretty good, and he got an AP. However, to do some worthwhile labbing you need more than that. A buddy got like a firewall, a switch and and AP for attending a "training day" a couple of years or so ago.
Am I missing out, or have Meraki started giving out less hardware lately?
Also: GRETA-ALERT: The subscriptions have run out for buddy, and now he's left with basically bricked devices that Meraki don't care about.
TCAM/ERROR ^^ it looks like your buddy just attended one of Merakis webinars whereby you’ll receive an AP. If he wishes to carry on using the device he’ll need to procure a new license.
Those that have received an AP, switch and MX have attended the CMNA training.
Uucert: Hm. Seems like CMNA grant the FW+SW+AP, but requires instructor-led (albeit free), while the ECMS1 seems to be nearly identical but online, and doesn't send you the hardware.
Well, instructor led is not gonna happen for a long time, lol. We can't even work from the office unless we can't do it remote.
UCcert: I used to have Gnome on my team. (Un)fortunately, Eeyore moved in his turf. That guy doesn't mess around. I shall speak no more, lest I incur the wrath of E who shall not be named.
Well, thanks for offering a contest to keep us sane during a time when many of us are quarantined at home. It's my pleasure to be a part of such a cool community! Let's get the party started with the 5 points for this comment.
I'd like to send extra kudos to the @Simple post with work from home tips for us all. These three resonated with me in particular:
Play music to block out sounds of home. This is particularly important for me because my neighbors just acquired a few donkeys! Wow! They don't sound anything like Donkey from Shrek or Eeyore.
End the day with three critical priorities to complete the following day and start each of them even if it is a single sentence. I love this one for staying focused. Having a starting point right away in the morning will be great.
Stay out of the Fridge except for lunch time!! I feel like I ate 10 times today.
Tomorrow will be much better. Stay safe and healthy everyone and thanks again.
But I keep wondering why Africa is always left out of all these contest and challenges. What about community members who are not members on the eligible countries, how will they be a part of all these goodies?
I think those of us from Africa countries need to be included.
Unfortunately @Maui_Meraki_Dog is no longer with me. My wife ended up becoming severely allergic to him and we had to give him up. He's with a good family though! He has a new brother (another chihuahua) and his new owners have two little girls that absolutely adore him.
Thank you all who gave me thumbs up. WFH comes with its own benefits. Just consider the time that we save on commute, gas, food though it makes a dent on the general economy. Together I am hopeful we will get through sooner if we act as a community. Excited to be in the contest.
Here is an email that I have been using. I tweak it a little each time I send it out to fit the recipient.
Hello _____,
I trust that you are getting by with the “Safe at Home” order that Governor Evers (WI) has enacted due to CV-19! Regarding that order, I have a couple thoughts for you to consider. This does not need to be hard.
Make sure the home network is secure. The bare minimum will be to password-protect the router
Use company wide cybersecurity tools. We have several solutions
Encrypt sensitive files in transit and in storage, 440bt encryptions are what we offer. (Most of the free programs are only encrypted while in movement. Typically, 128bt Encryption which is easily crackable)
Stay informed on cybersecurity and social engineering, read up on different forms of social engineering and phishing so you know what to look for. Now more than ever, scammers will try to pose as your colleagues or managers to try to get you to give up sensitive company information.
Avoid public Wi-Fi, which is far more likely to have malicious actors connected to it or running it, as is the case with a hotspot
Make sure that your passwords are a minimum of 12 characters
Demos available…
Simple Network Consulting has a couple of secure solutions for working from home. It’s one thing to say that workers will work remotely, and access sensitive and confidential information via the internet. It’s another to be able to assure executive management that information is protected, and compliance mandates are met. Please let me know if you have any availability to connect in the coming weeks to discuss.
Great idea to not only increase community participation, but also to help out those of us who might be feeling less connected to our teams or others. Also, since I'm sure a lot of us are overwhelmed with user requests during this time of users working from home, it helps to talk among other like-minds and not only with troubled end-users.
Thanks for Meraki for this contest, this what i wish, for the winner reward from what describe above, from kudos, from question what we ask, for suggestion for some question, that fair for me.
You know how people dream about winning the big lottery and what they would do with all the money, even though they have a greater chance of being struck by lightening, twice?
How about sharing a photo of where you would mount your MV32 camera if you happened to win the dream.
@PhilipDAth I’ve been on demos where the cameras have been in SE’s homes and the engineer has built a full Lego city and put the camera above or in to demo it’s capabilities. This is the dream.
